Mindless crap, eh? Not worthy of a classical music fan’s attention? Hence why I compare a good DJ to a good composer. Whole lotta other business going on inside those headphones too, btw.

And that vid is merely of a simple setup. Top DJs literally have a panel in front of them wider than a cadillac’s dash with about as many buttons and gizmo’s as a cockpit (pardon the perhaps unintentional pun). And like a pilot, it’s not merely the DJ, but the people who produce the original tracks, flying that plane. Every single sound you hear they sampled from somewhere, be it a bouncing basketball (modified) for the bass drum or a bus engine (modified) for the synth.

Don’t be too quick to diss it as not real music, folks.

MOAR!

Truth be told, I was waiting for the second last mix to end so the Eternal Techno™ could be given its due. Mateus.

Like this:

Meanwhile, if anyone is still so worried about the harmless yet necessary trace gas that is our old friend, CO2, they’ve worked out a way to shove it into ice (and with an added bonus to boot).

They’ve done it in a laboratory: Scientists have injected carbon dioxide into the kind of methane ice that underlies vast tracts of permafrost in the Arctic and lurks beneath the deep seafloor throughout the world. In that experiment, the carbon dioxide exchanged with the methane molecules. While the CO2 was sequestered inside the ice, the scientists extracted an energy source that may exist in nature in greater volume than all other fossil fuels combined.

By the way, there’s a link at the end of that previous link which also notes the rate of sea level rise is decreasing, despite NASA wanting you to believe it has been increasing by cooking the books. It should also be noted 10% of sea level rise is due to land rising, also.

Meanwhile, a fair whack of this eco greenie claptrap is being scrapped in the UK and Canada.

Of particular note is that Canada link. Yes. They’ve scrapped their carbon tax.

Well, John, let me ask you something. What if the dean and chief mouthpiece of the “oncological community” was a man who majored in government as an undergraduate, did poorly in science and math classes, later dropped out of divinity school and obtained a law degree, and went on to enjoy a modestly successful political career, only to flame out in a burst of extreme weirdness in a losing presidential campaign against a guy who would one day wind up being caricatured by vicious cartoonists as a chimp? Furthermore, what if he had once been in the pay of the tobacco lobby? Would these facts not tend to undermine your blind faith in the credibility of a medical establishment of which he was the leading light? Or – and I am still using the oncological analogy – would you unquestioningly agree to a colonoscopy performed with an Apache double-jacket fire hose and a Sunbeam minicam because the “science is settled”?